Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nine Different Guys...
Chief Justice Vinson, questioned about dissents in the court, once exploded; "Look, these are nine guys, all with some reputation, ability and confidence in themselves. If any Chief Justice can knock their heads together and get unanimity he's better than I am." Earl Warren, by persuasion rather than head-knocking, won unanimity in all the desegregation decisions. And it is in testament to his skill and effectiveness as Chief Justice that his will and his liberal bent have come to dominate the Supreme Court over the last year...
Strange indeed were Togliatti's answers to nine questions conveniently framed by Rome's highbrow Nuovi Argomenti. According to Togliatti, Khrushchev went too far: "Criticisms of Stalin at the 20th Congress, which were largely unexpected, hit hard at the cadres of the international movement; there was not only surprise, there was also sorrow and bewilderment; there were doubts about the past." He explained that the criticism was needed because "leading cadres of the Soviet society had become insensitive and had lost personal capacity owing to the Stalin cult...
...England's Mrs. Roy Smith laid a 150-yd. iron shot on the 36th green, easily sank her second putt to defeat America's Polly Riley, one up, as Britain's determined band of women amateur golfers won the Curtis Cup for the second time in nine tries from their American cousins. The score...
Motorists driving north must now pass roadblocks where inspectors search cars for plants or fruit that might harbor Medflies. All such stuff is confiscated, but owners of fruit are allowed to pull over and eat their contraband. Human gastric juices kill Medfly larvae (one couple last week ate nine melons). Fruit not disposed of in this way is doused with insecticide and buried 3 ft. deep...